Annoyed with LibreChat

Posted by Charming_Support726@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 12 comments

Few weeks ago I decided to give LibreChat a try. OpenWebUI was so ... let's me say ... dont know .. clumsy?

So I went to try LibreChat. I was happy first. More or less. Basic things worked. Like selecting a model and using it. Well. That was also the case with OpenWebUI before ....

I went to integrate more of my infrastructure. Nothing. Almost nothing worked oob. nothing. Although everything look promising - after 2 weeks of doing every day 5 micro steps forward and 3 big steps backward.

Integration of tools, getting web search to work took me ages. Lack of traces almost killed me, and the need to understand what the maintainer thought when he designed the app was far more important, than reading the docs and the examples. Because docs and examples are always a bit out out date. Not fully. A bit.

Through. Done. Annoyed. Frustrated. Nuts. Rant over.

Back to OpenWebUI? LobeChat has to much colors and stickers. I think. Any other recommendations ?

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gjsmo@reddit

I feel like I'm in the same boat, what I want feels like it should be simple (and all of the major players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google etc had everything I wanted a year ago) but they all seem to be lacking, in different ways. I'm sure it'll happen eventually but whatever.

Evening_Ad6637@reddit

I had exactly the same experience with Libre Chat. I didn't have that with Webui, which I still use - not personally, but as a platform for friends and family.

Libre Chat is one of those pieces of software that at the end of the day I'm not sure if I'm just stupid or if the software design was stupid.

Now, as mentioned, I can recommend Cherry Studio if you're looking for something that works oob and focuses on professional use cases rather than Rolepay.

Another recommendation (with caveats) is Silly Tavern. Even though it is primarily aimed at RP users, Silly Tavern is extremely powerful and with some work you can turn it into a professional and customized Corpo interface. I say "with caveats" because the conversion effort (and therefore maintenance and conflicts with upstream) can be very high. So you should think carefully about whether you have a specific, individual problem that really justifies this effort.

Electronic_One_4133@reddit

Cherry studio perhaps? It build with MCP and has many integration.

Or Jan.ai, it has similar vibes but has more broad documentations

Marksta@reddit

Of all the front ends for 'webchat' usage I've tried, my vote goes to Cherry Studio too for the moment. It's not perfect and it sort of has a lot going on (support for 1000 Chinese mini apps?) but feature wise it looks to be the furthest along. UI/UX wise it's pretty good. The extra stuff is just extra in the settings but not in the way. Reroll, duplicating threads, new thread from here etc and MCP stuff is all in there. Only bad part is rerolls don't remember past rerolls. Actually a lot of clients don't have this feature, idk what's up with that.

Yes, my vote also goes to Cherry Studio, as it has been my first choice for a few months now and on my three computers (Windows, Linux, Macos) when it comes to frontend.

I also recently tested the beta preview, which looks very appealing and somehow... even cleaner looking. The developers don't seem to be in a hurry to release the beta, which is a wise decision in my opinion.

Regarding your rerolling experience: isn't that something where you'd have to click "branching" before you can expect a second reroll to appear in the context of the first?